"Why are you doing this?" Alex chokes out as her hair is pulled by Terry to get a better angle with the knife. "We haven't done anything to you. Please, Terry, Bobby is going to die if you don't let me work on him or get help."
"That's the point of the poison, why interfere with fate?" Terry asks, calmly.
"It's not his fate to die here, now, like this!" Alex says, fiercely, blinking as she licks her lips. She looks over at Bobby and calculates in her mind how long he has been out.
"You're wrong Alex, or should I say Detective Alexandra Eames? Yeah, I know all about your little charade. You and Bobby aren't married, you're partners at work." Terry says.
"How did you..." Alex starts to ask but is cut off.
"Find out?" Terry finishes with a laugh. "You shouldn't leave your badge lying around. The renewal date was for 03' and it had Eames on it, not Goren. You obviously made it sound like you've been married for ages and when Charlie told me how Bobby told him how you two met, I knew it was a lie. You, yourself, told me a completely different story. So tell me, why did you do it? Why come here and pretend to be your partner's wife?"
"For the same reason that you're doing it." Alex replies. "To satisfy a bet."
"Yeah, the bet." Terry laughs. "You know something? Charlie and I aren't even engaged."
"I don't find that surprising." Alex says, struggling.
"Don't move around there too much Alex, or I'll slit you from ear to ear. You see I've learned a lot tricks in my line of work." Terry says, quietly.
"What do you want from me? Just let me call Bobby an ambulance, I'll stay with you. I'll do whatever it is you want. Just let me take care of him." Alex was close to begging.
"That's the whole point, Alex, I want what you have. I want the love and devotion of a man that isn't just after my body. Someone who respects my mind and my opinions and would pluck a star from the sky if I said I wanted one. You have that and I never will!" Terry screams.
"You could have anything you want Terry, but this isn't the way. Killing Bobby isn't the way." Alex whispers. Negotiating with her captor isn't doing any good and she knows that time is running out for Bobby.
"Men have always used me. One day I just got fed up and decided that I wanted to get even. Tom was the first, then Toby and well then I got propositioned by Charlie to come on this trip. See I was paid to play the part of his fiancé. I'm always paid to do what men want me to do, but this time I wasn't required to perform in the bedroom. Surprised Alex?"
"You're a prostitute." Alex says, flatly. "Charlie hired a prostitute to pretend to be his fiancé, while my best friend recruited me."
"Ah, you've got it now. I thought it would be the perfect cover. Go to a little reunion in a no-name town and that's where I met Frankie. Frankie was a sweet guy, but he fell into my order and well, the rest is history. Charlie should have been next, but I needed him to pay me, so I decided he could live for a while. Erik and Edward decided not to show up for the reunion so I decided Georgie would do. And then there's Bobby, Bobby Goren should be dead by now. I guess I'll have to do you in too before I go rendezvous with Greg." Terry laughs.
"You're a serial killer and you're picking your victims randomly because of their names." Alex guessed. This was usually Bobby's job so she was flying solo at the moment trying to piece together the littlest pieces of information Terry gave her.
"You are smart, aren't you?" Says Terry forcing Alex to her feet.
"You aren't going to get away with this. If he dies, so help me God I'll make you pay. Even if I have to come back from the grave myself to do it!" Alex threatens.
"You won't have to, because I will." Replies a male voice from behind Terry. Terry turns still holding onto Alex.
"Charlie, you're looking better." Replies Terry as she eyes Alex's gun in Charlie's hand.
"Yeah, after that drug wore off and I untied myself." Charlie eyes the knife in Terry's hand. His gaze shifts to Bobby on the floor behind them.
"Don't be stupid, Charlie." Terry says pressing the knife to Alex's neck. A thin pinpoint of blood forms.
"I was stupid, for hiring you to deceive my friend. No amount of money is worth this. I heard what you said and I won't let you get away with this. Too many people have suffered because of me. I brought a rotten apple into the barrel and its time I threw it out in the garbage where it belongs." Charlie starts to squeeze the trigger.
"You haven't got the guts." Terry sneers.
"Haven't I?" Charlie asks as he pulls the trigger. Terry falls backwards as Alex grabs for her arm and pulls the knife out her hand. She watches as Terry slips to the ground. Not even bothering to check her injury she drops to Bobby's side.
Charlie rushes over. "What can I do?" He asks as Alex starts CPR again.
"Call 911...and pray." Alex says, softly, as she gives Bobby mouth to mouth for the second time that day. She only wishes he was faking it this time. She would gladly eat the whole bar of soap herself.
Charlie runs off to call 911.